tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 8

TEACHING HOSPITALS: Doctor Pays Fine for Wandering off PATH

Physician-presence rules in the teaching hospital setting are among the oldest compliance hot buttons around, but the feds haven't let up on investigating claims that sometimes go back a decade or more. In a recent settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and a Philadelphia orthopedic surgeon, the doctor had to pay only single damages plus interest to resolve the case, not the astronomical fines the feds sometimes pursue. According to U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan, Richard Rothman and his billing company, Reconstructive Orthopaedic Associates, will pay just more than $838,000, plus interest, to settle charges that...

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